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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: "netadmin @dslextreme.com" <netadmin@dslextreme.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org,
	  eCos Maintainers <ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] ECOS 2.0 build help: mips_size.ecc: error
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E6066A.8060309@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de6ef1900904150844j5726332wc86e4104b392995b@mail.gmail.com>

netadmin @dslextreme.com wrote:
> Netgear did provide their code here:
> ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/GS108T_V1.0.1_03_src.zip
> Are you saying those package is missing from their released code?

This file only contains the files NetGear changed which according to
their install document should be overlaid onto the eCos 2.0 standard
tree.  However, they did *not* provide their changes to 'ecos.db',
nor the sources to any of the packages they added.

IMO, they are not abiding by the GPL :-(

> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:52:06PM -0700, netadmin @dslextreme.com wrote:
>>> Hi, I am trying to follow the instruction from Netgear GS108T switch
>>> to build its firmware.
>>> It is MIPS based chip.? I followed the instruction and download and
>>> installed ECOS.
>>> Then I realized the original firmware was based on ECOS 2.0.? So I download from
>>> the ECOS mirror site the 2.0.
>>>
>>> After applied the source code, I ran this command:
>>> $ECOS_CORE/tools/bin/ecosconfig --config=../mips_size.ecc
>>> --srcdir=$ECOS_CORE/packages --prefix=$ECOS_CORE/mips_install tree
>>>
>>> But I got a lot of errors:
>>>
>>> ../mips_size.ecc: error
>>> ??? Attempt to load an unknown package `CYGPKG_HAL_MIPS_BCM47xx'.
>>> ../mips_size.ecc: error
>>> ??? Attempt to load an unknown package `CYGPKG_HAL_MIPS_BCM953710'.
>>> ../mips_size.ecc: error
>>> ??? Attempt to load an unknown package `CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_MIPS_BCM947xx'.
>>> ../mips_size.ecc: error
>>> ??? Attempt to load an unknown package `CYGPKG_DEVS_FLASH_MIPS_BCM947xx'.
>>> ../mips_size.ecc: error
>>> ??? Attempt to load an unknown package `CYGPKG_LOGGING'.
>>> ../mips_size.ecc: error
>> These packages don't exist in eCos 2.0. I guess Netgear have made some
>> changes to eCos. Did they supply a patch with these new packages?
>>
>>        Andrew
>>
> 


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